The new conductor of the city theater – kaernten.ORF.at

For the first time, Lin's contract stipulates a residency requirement, City Theater Director Aaron Steele said at a news conference on Friday. But even without that, Lin would have moved on to Carinthia, the train conductor said. After all, it's a homecoming for him, who studied in Graz and Zurich: “And I'm looking forward to the macaroni and cheese,” he smiles. From 2016 to 2018, Lin was first ensemble director and deputy general music director at the Meiningen State Theater, then general music director at the Regensburg Theater until 2022.

Return to Klagenfurt

It was in Klagenfurt that he “took my first steps towards becoming an opera conductor as a young student”, and here he also worked for the first time as assistant musician with Aaron Stiehl in Herbert Willis's opera Schlavis Broder (then under artistic director Josef Kopplinger). He also conducted the KSO's New Year's Concert 2024. “Lin also brings the necessary presentation talent to sell music,” Stiehl said, noting the Taiwanese's talents as well as his musical aptitude. “And she belongs to Austria. I knew it at the latest when I heard him conduct a waltz.”

After the current season, Nicholas Milton, whom Stiehl left with a “teary eye,” will bid farewell to the Carinthian public on June 15 with a concert of the KSO and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony as well as reviews of highlights of their combined works. .